At A Dinner To Admiral Farragut (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
JULY 6, 1865Now, smiling friends and shipmates all,Since half our battle 's won,A broadside for our Admiral!Load every crystal gunStand ...
JULY 6, 1865Now, smiling friends and shipmates all,Since half our battle 's won,A broadside for our Admiral!Load every crystal gunStand ...
You 'll believe me, dear boys, 't is a pleasure to rise,With a welcome like this in your darling old ...
THE minstrel of the classic layOf love and wine who singsStill found the fingers run astrayThat touched the rebel strings.Of ...
January 14, 1880CHICAGO sounds rough to the maker of verse;One comfort we have--Cincinnati sounds worse;If we only were licensed to ...
"A SPANISH GIRL IN REVERIE,"SHE twirled the string of golden beads,That round her neck was hung,---My grandsire's gift; the good ...
I sometimes sit beneath a treeAnd read my own sweet songs;Though naught they may to others be,Each humble line prolongsA ...
"Purpureos spargam flores."THE wreath that star-crowned Shelley gaveIs lying on thy Roman grave,Yet on its turf young April setsHer store ...
THE glory has passed from the goldenrod's plume,The purple-hued asters still linger in bloomThe birch is bright yellow, the sumachs ...
AN APPEALLISTEN, young heroes! your country is calling!Time strikes the hour for the brave and the true!Now, while the foremost ...
ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN. 1809-1890FOR him the Architect of allUnroofed our planet's starlit hall;Through voids unknown to worlds unseenHis clearer vision rose ...
PRELUDE TO "ILLUSTRATED POEMS"FULL well I know the frozen hand has comeThat smites the songs of grove and garden dumb,And ...
TO J. L. MOTLEYYES, we knew we must lose him,--though friendship may claimTo blend her green leaves with the laurels ...
THE YOUNG GIRL'S POEMWHATEVER I do, and whatever I say,Aunt Tabitha tells me that is n't the way;When she was ...
AS on the gauzy wings of fancy flying From some far orb I track our watery sphere,Home of the struggling, suffering, ...
WAN-VISAGED thing! thy virgin leafTo me looks more than deadly pale,Unknowing what may stain thee yet,--A poem or a tale.Who ...
I BRING the simplest pledge of love,Friend of my earlier days;Mine is the hand without the glove,The heart-beat, not the ...
WHEN Advent dawns with lessening days,While earth awaits the angels' hymn;When bare as branching coral swaysIn whistling winds each leafless ...
I love to hear thine earnest voice,Wherever thou art hid,Thou testy little dogmatist,Thou pretty KatydidThou mindest me of gentlefolks,(Oliver Wendell ...
THAT age was older once than now,In spite of locks untimely shed,Or silvered on the youthful brow;That babes make love ...
COME, heap the fagots! Ere we goAgain the cheerful hearth shall glow;We 'll have another blaze, my boys!When clouds are ...
AT THE DINNER TO THE PRESIDENT,BOSTON, JUNE 26, 1877How to address him? awkward, it is trueCall him "Great Father," as ...
THE feeble sea-birds, blinded in the storms,On some tall lighthouse dash their little forms,And the rude granite scatters for their ...
WHO PRESENTED ME WITH A SILVER LOVING CUPON THE TWENTY-NINTH OF AUGUST, M DCCC LXXXIX"WHO gave this cup?" The secret ...
I 'm ashamed,--that 's the fact,--it 's a pitiful case,--Won't any kind classmate get up in my place?Just remember how ...
At the meeting of the New York Harvard Club,February 21, 1878."CHRISTO ET ECCLESLE." 1700To GOD'S ANOINTED AND HIS CHOSEN FLOCKSo ...
AT A DINNER GIVEN HIM ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY,DECEMBER 12, 1885With a bronze statuette of John of Bologna's Mercury,presented by ...
THERE 's a thing that grows by the fainting flower,And springs in the shade of the lady's bower;The lily shrinks, ...
AUGUST 5, 1866THOUGH watery deserts hold apartThe worlds of East and West,Still beats the selfsame human heartIn each proud Nation's ...
AH, here it is! the sliding railThat marks the old remembered spot,--The gap that struck our school-boy trail,--The crooked path ...
A LOVELY show for eyes to seeI looked upon this morning,--A bright-hued, feathered companyOf nature's own adorning;But ah! those minstrels ...
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